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Hardwicks Bar would be Jacksonville's first new LGBTQIA+ nightclub in years

Hardwicks Bar is planned at 100 E. Adams St.
Jacksonville Daily Record
Hardwicks Bar is planned at 100 E. Adams St.

The Downtown Investment Authority board will consider a $145,784 incentives package for a proposed bar and nightclub at a vacant retail space at 100 E. Adams St., once the home of Burro Bar and The London Bridge restaurant.

Hardwicks Bar will be the first LGBTQIA+ bar built in Jacksonville in 20 years, operator Tim Hoal and business partner Elias Hionides said April 7.

“We have a huge population of LGBT in the (Duval) county and it’s just really underserved,” Hoal said.

Read the rest of this story at WJCT News partner the Jacksonville Daily Record.